On Apr 12, 2017, at 4:23 AM, (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

On 11 Apr 2017 at 18:19, Richard Aiken wrote:

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 3:12 PM, Bruce Johnson
<xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:
   <http://www.popularmechanics.
   com/military/weapons/a26009/man-discovers-gold-in-ex-army-tank/>

   oBTrav: PC´s pick up a beat-up G-gcarrier cheap at a Naval
   Surplus auction. Previous occupants have stashed valuables rifled
   during FFW in it, arrive to retrieve them, find out it´s been
   sold.

   Hijnx Ensue :-)


Especially if you follow the article closely . . . since the
*reported* value of the find equals precisely TWICE the *reported*
mass of the find . . .

That just means somebody saw "kilos" and wrote "pounds" in the
article.

or saw ‘pounds’ and wrote ‘dollars’  (or both!) although the £-$ exchange rate has not been all that high for a while. I’m guessing, given the sourcing (Daily Mail) mistakes could have easily been made :-)

It would be hard for the finders to get away with inflating the value since they’d be dealing with the bank which is in physical possession of the gold.